Weddings

Layla Gallagher, Robert Dryfoos

September 10, 2017

Layla Marie Gallagher and Robert Alexander Dryfoos are to be married Sept. 10 at Bykenhulle House, an events space in Hopewell Junction, N.Y. Lisa Zaro, who was ordained by Universal Ministries, is to officiate.

The bride, 29, who will be taking her husband’s name, is a daughter of Lourena A. Gallagher and Keith E. Gallagher of Red Hook, N.Y. Her mother is the director of social work at the Thompson House, a residential health care facility in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Her father is a project manager at Dutton Architecture in Kingston, N.Y.

The groom, 34, graduated with associate and bachelor’s degrees from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. He is the son of Mary Racine Dryfoos of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Robert Ochs Dryfoos of New Canaan, Conn. Until 2013 she worked as an independent licensed medical speech-language pathologist in Poughkeepsie. His father retired as a senior technical staff member from IBM in Poughkeepsie. He is the stepson of Theresa McDermott Dryfoos.

The groom is a grandson of Marian Sulzberger Heiskell, a former director of The New York Times Company, of New York and the late Orvil E. Dryfoos, the publisher of The New York Times from 1961 to 1963. He is also a step-grandson of the late Andrew Heiskell who was the chairman and chief executive of Time Inc. from 1960 to 1980.